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MLB

MLB

MLB league

League
MLB
Type
league
Avg Mentions/Run
25.4
Share
AI insight

MLB is consistently visible across all four AI platforms — a balanced answer-share profile.

BX Overall trend

Bowstone Index
57.1

BX Overall combines AI visibility and social momentum across all tracked leagues.

Good
1-week change
-2.1

vs. Aug 15, 2026

Both weeks are reconstructed from the mentions and social snapshots on record now, not captured at the time — so a later correction to either input moves a week already reported.

Driver mix (this week)
AI Visibility
-10.6
Social Presence
+13.7
AI Visibility Rank (all leagues)
#5
of 12 leagues · small sample
ranked by AI mention share
BX Overall Rank
#6
of 12 leagues · small sample
combines AI visibility + social momentum
AI Visibility
53.710.6
normalized across all 12 leagues
Social Presence
63.413.7
+0.2% WoW · normalized across all 12 leagues
Market Signal
Not applicable for leagues
Mentions (latest run)
28
-7 vs prior run
Dominant platform
Perplexity
13 of 28 mentions
Avg. rank when listed
2.7
11 ranked appearances
Total followers
27.1M
+0.2%

Why it moved this week

-7 mentions

Aug 15, 2026 → Aug 22, 2026 · one or both runs reconstructed from stored mentions

Paid tier

Full driver breakdown, model contribution, and prompt-level changes.

Attribution is probabilistic. These are the prompts, models and sources whose measurements changed most alongside this entity — not a claim that any of them caused the movement.

Platform dependence

  • Claude8 (29%)
  • GPT-4o5 (18%)
  • Gemini2 (7%)
  • Perplexity13 (46%)

Recommendation quality

178total mentions across all tracked runs
  • Top Mention4 (2%)
  • Strong Mention56 (31%)
  • Listed117 (66%)
  • Qualified1 (1%)

AI sentiment breakdown

Positive 32%Neutral 67%Negative 1%
Sentiment by platform
  • Claude26% positive
  • GPT-4o36% positive
  • Gemini39% positive
  • Perplexity31% positive

Social followers over time

AI mentions trend

ClaudeGPT-4oGeminiPerplexity

Top cited domains

Perplexity only · cited per question, not per entity

  • forbes.com8 prompts53%
  • reddit.com8 prompts53%
  • cnbc.com6 prompts40%
+151 more domainsPaid tier

Share of the 15 cited questions this entity was mentioned in.

Recent news mentions

Weekly digests · entity named, not necessarily the lead story

  • MLB’s labor negotiations are really about the future of sports media

    Sports Business Journal · Aug 17–23, 2026

  • MLB trade deadline frenzy reshapes multiple contenders, highlighted by the Padres, Dodgers, Blue Jays and Mari…

    ESPN · Aug 3–9, 2026

  • MLB trade deadline deal tracker dominated the week, but it is not a business story in the requested sense

    MLB.com · Aug 3–9, 2026

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  • The biggest MLB sports business stories this week are labor negotiations, the ongoing RSN/revenue crisis, and trade/free-agency market movement shaping payrolls…

    MLB news · Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026

  • MLB trade deadline activity accelerates, with several notable player transactions reshaping contenders

    ESPN** · Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026

Why it matters

  • Balanced platform profile

    Visibility is spread across platforms — a balanced profile that limits the risk of disappearing from any one AI assistant.

  • AI visibility slipping

    AI mention share moved -0.4% run-over-run. Rising AI visibility often precedes broader attention — track this entity against social growth on the Correlation view.

  • Appearing in weekly news

    Appeared in 5 weekly news summaries. Sustained news presence typically feeds AI visibility in subsequent runs.